by Allan J. Feifer,American Thinker:

Washington, D.C., doesn’t just lean left. It rules a country it doesn’t represent—and the tools to change that do exist.

Washington, D.C., its institutions, and the people who choose to live there are the epitome of everything the rest of us hate about the direction our country has taken. It’s as if a foreign enemy governs us. For decades, the Washington elite have come after traditional America, and they’re winning.

TRUTH LIVES on athttps://sgtreport.tv/

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump received only 21,076 votes in D.C., which was 6.47% of the total cast. That’s not just because it41.4% of its population is black. Nationwide, blacks voted for Trump at around 16–17%. It’s the 39.6% of whites who make the difference. Immediately outside of D.C., in the affluent suburbs where many ofD.C.’s very white political classlive, the share of votes for Harris was inthe 70-80% range.

D.C. is not a microcosm of America; it is its political inverse. Yet this single, self-contained enclave of ideological uniformity sits at the apex of the world’s most powerful nation’s governing apparatus.

D.C.-based bureaucrats write the regulations that govern every American business, farm, and household. Senior managers at the EPA, DOJ, HHS, and Education determine how laws passed by a divided Congress are implemented—and most pointedly, how aggressively. Political appointees set enforcement priorities and policies that flow outward.

Elected officials, their staffs, lobbyists, contractors, and consultants all coalesce around the same political culture—where a 90% consensus is normal. In an environment such as this, Donald Trump never had a chance to enact his agenda—the agenda American voters supported.

The judiciary, layered atop this structure, only deepens the imbalance. The U.S. District Court for D.C. and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals—the second most powerful court in the nation—are the primary battleground for every consequential challenge to federal executive action, and both are filled with Democrat appointees.

In 2025, Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, issued a restraining order halting President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua members, ordering deportation planes to turn around mid-flight. The D.C. Circuit voted 7-to-4 to reinstate Biden-appointed members of the NLRB and the Merit Systems Protection Board whom Trump had removed.

Source: SGT Report